2015 Nissan Murano Road Test | Edmunds.com

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As crossover SUVs are poised to take over the automotive landscape, the all-new 2015 Nissan Murano carves out its own special place in the segment.

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  • bankerdannybankerdanny Member Posts: 1,021
    The styling is distinctive, I'll give Nissan that and the profile isn't awful. But as usual I find myself struck by the amount of potential cargo space lost due to that dramatically slanted upper section of the rear hatch. Also, those very busy wheels look horrible with those heavily styled sides.

    Nissan's stylists deserve some sort of award for designing a nose even uglier than anything that ever came out of Acura or currently comes from Lexus.
  • subatomicsubatomic Member Posts: 140
    I give credit to Nissan designers for styling that is bold and exciting from every angle. I suspect that the styling will be polarizing as well. The styling on the still relatively new Nissan Pathfinder seems unusually bland in comparison.
  • metalmaniametalmania Member Posts: 167
    I like the interior, but not the exterior. Just about everything on the outside is too "busy". It's like there's a basically attractive foundation underneath but all the details are overdone. Too bad, I was looking forward to seeing what the redesign would be. Not for me. I'm not all that thrilled with the new Edge design either.
  • drex2drex2 Member Posts: 24
    The styling of this beast illustrates perfectly the difference between bold and totally off the rails. The front end is particularly eyeball searing. With the stacked repeated shapes in the center and the strange wings on the headlights, the view in the very first photo here makes me feel like the visual after effects of having 3 margaritas too many. Looking at the Murano is akin to someone holding up their hand and you seeing 15 fingers.

    And carrying on a theme from the current Altima, the new Murano proves that there is no team of designers in the auto industry that is more inept with styling creases and bulges. There's no harmony at all, with a seemingly random bump here and a random crease there. When the current Altima first came out, one of the magazine testers criticized the styling saying something like "it looks like a Camry that was attacked by a huge swarm of bees". You could compare the new Murano with the outgoing or new generation Ford Edge and make a similar comment.

    Just what the automotive marketplace is clamoring for. Perhaps instead of Murano, they should have named it the Grand Juke.
  • saratogastevesaratogasteve Member Posts: 186
    I agree as one post commented - the wheels are "noisy" looking. I'm guessing those are the wheels offered on the Platinum edition - I'm sure the wheels on the other version will tone it down.
  • razzafrazarazzafraza Member Posts: 3
    The eyelashes/antennae on the front lights is where Nissan went too far with the styling
  • ab22_ab22_ Member Posts: 3
    I like it. I will say that you truly can't please everybody. To each his own, I get it. With just about every car that is produced, if you go out to these sites, you see it referred to as ugly, strange or weird if its something along the lines of the Murano, NX or Jeep Cherokee. Those vehicles that are bold and different. If its an MDX or Sorento, its boring and plain.

    As long as these auto makers and move enough units to stay in business they must be doing something right with the designs. I'm sure every auto maker would love to move 100,000 units of any one vehicle a year. Honestly, for me, part of the allure of an automobile is having something that isn't so common that you see it all the time. I don't mind different as long as its good looking.
  • mycatcroakedmycatcroaked Member Posts: 6
    As a former Nissan Murano and Infiniti FX owner, I am still irked that when you order the Navigation system (which I always do), the compass in the rearview mirror is deleted. I called and wrote Nissan about this and noted that nowhere on the dash or Nav screen do see your traveling direction if you have the factory navigation system.. Such a small detail but one of several (like wipers that don't finish their cycle when you power off the engine) that have turned me from Nissan products. At least Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Fiat vehicles care about these and many other details. Too bad writers/reviewers never notice or comment on these things, or how effectively the HVAC system works (in auto), or how the Bluetooth pairing/voice/text features work. In 542 miles I would know and be able to comment on every feature of a vehicle.
  • mittzombiemittzombie Member Posts: 162
    Yikes!

    Makes the Acura ZDX look classic in comparison, makes the Juke look handsome...

    The Murano used to be kind of good looking, it got uglier the last update and now this...
  • saratogastevesaratogasteve Member Posts: 186
    does anyone know if the engine and transmission being placed in the new Murano is the same that Nissan uses for the Pathfinder? Seems to me that would be a huge question mark since it's well chronicled that Nissan has had issues with the tranny in their new Pathfinder.
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